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Medical student found dead in Salem

TNN | Updated: Mar 18, 2020, 10:12 IST

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SALEM: A 35-year-old medical student, who went missing on Sunday, was found dead in the Vellakkalparai area here on Tuesday evening. The Steel Plant police identified the deceased as Gourav Begara, 35, of West Bengal. He was a third-year MS ortho student of a private medical college in Ariyanur. According to a police officer, Gourav, along with five of his friends, had went on a trekking to Kanjamalai, a hillock near their college, on Sunday morning. “They come down from the hillock around 12 noon. Gaurav, who was very tired, asked his friends to fetch him some water. They made him sit on a boulder and returned in few minutes. However, Gourav was not to be seen anywhere there,” the officer said quoting the complainants. As their search for him didn’t yield any fruit, the five on Monday lodged a complaint with the Steel Plant police, who recovered Gaurav’s body at Vellakkalparai area and sent that to the government hospital for postmortem. “We are yet to ascertain whether it’s a case of mudar or natural death. We are waiting for the postmortem report to confirm the same,” the official said. tnn